{"id":312,"date":"2004-01-20T02:08:58","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:29","slug":"bizarro_la_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Bizarro L.A. Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last week, there are been two<\/b> op-eds that could be construed as being pro-gun.<\/p>\n

Did someone slip a fake copy onto my driveway??<\/p>\n

In today’s op-eds, Walk Softly and carry a Big Gun<\/a>, a commentary by an Alaska resident who asks:<\/p>\n

I am puzzled now by the strange way people here are dealing with mountain lions … which is to say, letting them kill you.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And last week, Diana Wagman went shooting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Guns are bad. All my life, it’s been that simple. At my son’s preschool, if a child pointed a banana and said “bang,” he was admonished to “use the banana in a happier way.”… <\/p>\n

So what would make someone like me change my mind? I met this gun enthusiast. As research for my new novel, I asked him many questions, all the while voicing my disgust. My character might use a gun, but I never would. “Come to the range,” the gun guy said. “I’ll teach you to shoot.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm… Go figure.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Suman Palit is adopting the same approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last week, there are been two op-eds that could be construed as being pro-gun. Did someone slip a fake copy onto my driveway?? In today’s op-eds, Walk Softly and carry a Big Gun, a commentary by an Alaska resident who asks: I am puzzled now by the strange way people here are dealing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}